The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-29
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Events Retold I'm Brief for the
Weekly Sentinel.

Harper and Hopkins, the Cincinnati
bank wreckers, have been surrendered ~
their bondsmea and are in Jail.
The wheat crop of Pennsylvania will be
the smallest known for many years. Other
crops promise to be an average.
Five hundred italian railroad laborers
are on a strike at Marquette, Mich, and
serious trouble is apprehended.
Thomas E. Hughes, of Sullivan, Ind,
agent of d. 81. Baldwin q Co., of Cincin-
natl, has been arrested for forgery.
G. II. Todd, California bred colt, won
the American Derby at Chicago. The race
is worth to the owner about $14. 900.
Four men were killed and three others
fatally injured by gas explosion in a col
liery at Nanticoke, Pa, Wednesday night.
Charles f. Mars, a veteran newspaper
man of Buffalo, committed suicide because
of his failure to conquer his appetite for
liquor.
One hundred thousand Catholics of New
York have appealed to the Vatican against
the threatened accommodation OF Father
McGlynn.
The $4,000 seduction suit of Sophia
Nicely against her uncle, BAIL Nelly, all of
Madit on County, Indiana, has been COM
promised for 81 500.
Mrs. Noah Ham, of Anderson, Ind, for
three years cripple. is alleged to have
been cured by the faith process, at the
Woodwork revival.
General James Speed, Acknowledgement
under President Lincoln. died Saturday at
his home near Crescent Hills, a few miles
from Louisville, Ky.
The aggregate shipments of wheat from
Minneapolis to Chicago during the past
month were four times as great as during
any preceding month.
The peach crop of Delaware is now re-
ported to be almost failure. There will
not be over l SOC, 900 baskets where $780,
coo were at first expected.
Mr. William 0'Briens United Ireland
says that Ireland is the only civilized coun-
try in the world which did not share in the
Queens jubilee celebration.
Professor Charles S. c. Leon, st. Louis
corn doctor, was bitten by a large rattle
snake from which he was trying to extract
the fangs. Doctors say he will die.
The loss by the burning of the tobacco
warehouses of Sawyer, Wallace & Co., the
Boone warehouse and the Banner ware
house is estimated at half a million.
DR.. 7. B. Dover, crazsd over his wife's
death, shielded at Little Rock, Ark. Be-
fore blowing his brains out he made will
disposing of his property and body.
At New Canton, Ill, David Douglas went
TO the house of Riley Kelly, and, calling
him out, plunged knife into his breast,
killing hun instantly. Both were boys.
At Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, d. B.
Kennedy attempted to prevent his friend,
w. 7. Grigsby, from killing himself, and
was shot dead by the latter. Grigsby is in
sane.
The great event of the week was the
Queens Jubilee. Victoria, and Great Brit
ain generally, celebrated with great pomp
the half century point OF the Queens
reign.
Alfred Blunt, wife-murderer, was hanged
at st. Louis Friday, and Edward Snsed
was hanged at Independence, Mo, for the
murder of a man in a drunken quarrel at
Kausss City.
DR.. Parker, the London preacher, dedi-
Gates his Beecher eulogy, to be pronounced
| in Brooklyn next October, to President
Cleveland, and the latter has accepted the
compliment.
John Thomas Rose, co.ored, convicted
| in Baltimore of the murder of Emily
Brown, white, whose body was sold by
him to the medical university, was Satur-
day sentenced to be hanged.
Five desperadoes boarded Grand Trunk
train at Fort Gratoit, Mich, at l o'clock
| Wednesday morning, and relieved the pas
seDgers of their money and valuables. Sew
eral arrests have been made on suspicion.
A Rome dispatch says the pope Will ex-
communicate Father McGlynn without
| further delay, the latter having made no
| sign of submission, although the period of
| grace allowed him has nearly expired.
Nearly $50, 600 cattle have been marketed
in the Chicago stockyards within three
| weeks, and prices have touched the lowest
figures reached in many years. Roasts
and steaks at the butcher-shops remain
| unchanged.
Sidney COrbett, newspaper reporter OF
| Jackson Mich, was publicly horsewhipped
| in that place last Friday, by the wife of the
editor OF the Daily Courier, for his alleged
agency in procuring the publication OF q
scandalous story regarding her.
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Fairchild has directed Assistant Treasures
| to pay July interest checks and coupons
| upon presentation. This is done in order
TO release enough monev at once to pre-
vent embarrassment in financial circles.
Moses j. Spelghts, fltteen-year-old IN
mate of the house OF refuge, on RsndalPs
/ Island, New York, killed his keeper IN
pursuance of plot formed by himself and
| some ellow-prisoners to escape. The plot
failed, and Speights is held for murder.
Preliminary steps bave been taken by
the Interior Department in Washington co
cancel fifty.fve desert land entries In
Wyoming Territory, aggregating about
| $1,000 acres, becauss the conditions oil
entry have not been fulfilled, and because
of Justification and conspiracy therein.
The Egyptian question is making good
deal Of trouble tor European diplomates
A Cabinet Council was hurriedly SUN
moDed at London Thursday to consider
the mstter The Eoglish Government is
said to be greatly irritsted by the attitude
of France and Russia toward the conven-
ton.
Assistant Postmaster VIM. N. B. Buck
lew, of the Coshocton (Ohio) Office is short
$20l6 98, and has been arrested for embez
element He handed over 81. 440, and gave
| a chattel mortgage for the remainder. The
| postmaster at Arcanum, Ohio, Geo. E. Nor
! Iis, is also under arrest for the embezzle
ment of $249.
There was glut of cattle at the Chicago
stock-yard last Thursday, the receipts
aegregating 13,400 head, or nearly the
largest on record. Prices were of, and
large numbers were left in the pens. Hogs
we're no lower, hut fully 1000 were left uu
sold. Sheep were plentier and slightly
cheaper.
The survivors of the old Army of the
| Potomac held a reunion at Saratoga Satur
| day. Resolutions regarding the proposed
return of the Confederate battle flags were